NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- "They defend hard, but there's more to what they're doing. They'd done a lot of winning, that franchise. That's the culture over there."
That was Peter Laviolette, Friday morning at Bridgestone Arena.
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By nightfall, he'd be an unwitting -- not to mention unwilling -- prophet.
Not just because the Penguins would pummel his Predators, 5-2, and not just because defensive suffocation followed seemingly every one of Nashville's possessions. But also because of that other striking thing he'd stated about the winning culture.